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Một cấu trúc tốt giúp bài văn triển khai ý tốt hơn bởi các ý tưởng được sắp xp khoa học nhất.
Văn phong là cách nội dung được phát triển, có đầy đủ hay thừa ý hay không, các lập luận có thuyết phục hay không, hơn thế nữa văn phong còn được thể hiện qua giọng điệu của bài viết.
. . Cuối cùng, tính dễ đọc là nói đến bố cục bên ngoài và những điểm nhấn thích hợp với mục đích cho người đọc dễ nhìn và dễ đọc.


Ở bản tiếng việt cuốn này tên là Viết gì cũng đúng tập, so với tậpthiên về nội dung là lập luận vững chắc thì tậpthiên về cách trình bày.
So với cuốn tậpthì cuốn này hơi lép vế nên vote/sao cho nội dung, ltThis is a great book on writing, It's my new recommendation to my writers, Concise. Cute. Almost too cute. Short, accessible chapters and good exercises to illustrate points, I disagree with some of this The Little Red Writing Book's assertions about what good writing is, but overall, it's a nice little grammar and style guide, A short book on how to write better, The first section is on ways to structure your text start with the conclusion, divide the content into two to four parts, use transition words, The second is on style be specific and concrete, use examples, use short sentences, cut out unnecessary word, vary the length and beiginnings of your sentences, The third section has tips for improved readability, such as adding space, making words stand out, using headings and headlines to divide the text, The final part hasgrammar rules, many of which explain the difference between similar words like it's versus its,

I liked that the book has lots of examples both good and bad illustrating the different techniques, It also has lots of exercises with suggested answers in the back, I really liked the advice in the first three sections, but the grammar rules were less useful,

Its a bit of a yawner as far as gripping novels go, But as a writers reference book, it has handy tips and rules that every writer should know, It will stay on my desk for future use, Well written book about writing, I think I will eventually get it on my shelf as a reference and a reminder, Edit: The grammar chapters are exactly what I needed, Aka the second half of the book, The provide a brief, but necessary crash course on proper grammar,

Great book to help beginner writers because it breaks down everything from structure to style of different types of writing with activities and basic examples.
I think that this would be so useful for middle and high school writers,

Not exactly what I was looking for,
Grabbed this for a buck at a local book cart, Im not a grammar nerd, far from it, but my sense is this would be useful for high school or undergrad students looking for a concise overview.
I Dinty the exercises so cant speak to them, If you're looking for some solid, NonFiction writing advice to keep in your back pocket, then this is the book for you, The Little Red Writing Book doesn't deliver on it's 'promise of the premise' so to speak, From the description: "For Writers From All Walks of Life!" I was expecting some stellar, quick ideas to fold into my writing, This book is largely geared toward people writing essays and other nonfiction works such as memos, flyers, emails, and applications, It's very needed advice for those things, but the concepts are hard to apply elsewhere, The advice was good for the most part, if you're a high school or undergrad looking to pack a punch in your writing, then look no further.
This book is helpful more so for academics and for the corporate world i, e. formal audiences than for creative writers, However, some principles of style, such as using specific and concrete words principleand favoring active sentences principle, can be helpful for creative writing as well, Albeit, the section on grammar rules is indispensable for all writers, Royal has another book viz, The Little Gold Grammar Book that details those rules in more detail, and it may be more useful for the creative writer to read that one instead.
Here is an example of my grievance with this book:

In the chapter on nominalization, the reader is asked to alter the sentence "The inability to make decisions is a military leader's darkest enemy.
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The recommended solution is "A military leader must be able to decide, "

While this change may be a valid example of the lesson at hand, the second version is a tedious mess, What reader would prefer it Even technical writing is made worse if the audience is bored, and this second option is frankly boring,

Therein lies the problem with The Little Red Writing Book: It offers terrific technical advice while disregarding the CRAFT on too many occations, It's clear Mr. Royal is a very competent writer, but too often for my liking he provides dull sentences as "solutions" for the versions used as the inferior examples, These solutions are technically correct, but lack any soul the "incorrect" originals may have shown glimpses of,

As a reference of principals and technique, this book excels, but truthfully it could have been released as only thest appendix found within and done just as fine a job in that regard.
I found it at a used book sale for a dollar, and am glad I picked it up for reference at that price, If I'd have paid the,listed on the back.Canadian! I would have demanded a refund, Before I was halfway through it I was thinking that the cleverest thing about "The Little Red Writing Book" was its title, That's sad.

It's also unfair,

After all, I've read a lot of books and articles and web pages whose authors could benefit greatly from some of what is in this compact collection of how to write.
From stylistic construction to rules of grammar, Royal covers many areas where aspiring writers shouldn't but do have problems,

There were a couple places where I disagreed, and there were a couple of mistakes I thought should have been caught in proofreading, but on the whole it is solid.


I think my biggest issue is that the author misses a critical rule which ought to have been up front, It is a rule I learned in music theory but have since applied to all creative endeavors, The basic rule is that every rule exists for a reason, to prevent an outcome viewed as a problem, The importance of that rule is that if you know what the rule prevents, you know when to break it to achieve a desired effect,

A glaring example is his assertion that when writing in support of a position you should always put your conclusion at the beginning, I understand the reason. In most situations it enables the reader to understand your arguments much more readily because they already know where you are going, The downside is that people who disagree with you are unlikely ever to read you arguments once they know that they disagree, and you wind up "preachin' to the choir", because the only readers you get are those who agree with your conclusion.
Thus when I wrote Confessions of a Dungeons amp Dragons Addict sitelink mjyoung. net/dungeon/confes long ago, and I wanted to capture an audience of people who had already decided that the game

was an evil Satanic ritual, I opened with and maintained the notion that there were problems with the game of which Christians should be aware, so that I could draw them through all the supposed problems that actually were not problems with the game and reach the conclusion that Christians should be playing it.
Were I to have begun with the conclusion, it is doubtful whether my target audience would have gotten past the first paragraph,

Failure to explain the reason for the rules within the context of what is achieved by breaking them weakens the value of the book significantly.


However, it does hit many of the typical mistakes writers make, and most would probably find it useful, Excellent little book full information on structure, style, readability and grammar, Easy to read, full of examples for both "correct" and "incorrect" and a little humor,

The section on structure pertains to writing from the "top down, " In other words, tell the reader what your point is FIRST, then explain, Also, how to break things down, use transition words, stick to one topic,

The section on style covers a wide array of topics: support what you say, personalize examples, keep it simple, no long sentences, eliminate words that add nothing, active voice, favor verbs not nouns, sentence variety, and tone.


The section on readability is about layout and design, When to bold words or use italics, maintaining a neutral gender, and editing,

Finally, the topic on grammar goes into theparts of speech: nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions and interjections, There are brief, easy to understand, explanations followed by "correct" and "incorrect" examples, Common misused words like "affect/effect," "than/then," "all together/altogether," "all ready/already," "maybe/may be," "between/among," and more are cited with examples,

Very easy to follow and an excellent, quick reference source, Expressing yourself well in writing CAN actually be boiled down to a few principles, some of which I have recorded for reference below, The entire book itself is concise enough to serve as one such reference,


Strategically, the summary or conclusion should come at the start of the expository piece not at the end, so the reader is not left guessing at the writer's main idea.
The reader is first told what the writing is about, before being given the supporting facts and details,

Vague language weakens your writing because it forces the reader to guess at what you mean instead of allowing the reader to concentrate fully on your ideas and style.
Choose specific, descriptive and words for more forceful writing,

Don't just mention the "whats", mention the "so whats", Mentioning the examples, anecdotes and quotes provides support and indicates the reason why the writer is writing about something,

The passive voice is appropriate when the performer of the action is unknown or unimportant,

Favour verbs, not nouns,

Semicolons are used instead of "but, yet, or, not, or for" to link two closely related sentences, Seems geared toward undergraduates learning to write expository papers, Nothing terribly enlightening, but some good reminders, I was fairly pleased with it until I got to Principle: Gain Active Power, The section begins withand I promise I'm not making this upthe following sentence:

"In general, the active voice is preferred to the passive voice because the active voice is more action oriented.
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I wanted very much to believe this was an attempt at a joke, but the book is so serious in tone, so utterly lacking in mirthfulness, that I couldn't convince myself.
How could this possibly have made it past the editor

I don't think I can read anymore, A pity, really, since I found the illustrations so charming, .